We can’t believe it’s a year since we started but it is.

On April 7th 2007 we started eko, we had just one client, no offices, and a lot of expensive gear.One year on and we are lucky to have worked with lots of local, regional, national, and indeed international companies. We now have offices in Marygate York, and have invested heavily in new equipment.eko is not about making loads of money, but providing our clients with a personal service and quality work.

We think that we have achieved this during the past year, we now have a huge pool of resources that we can call upon, to enable us to take on far bigger projects than we could have done a year ago.We would like to thank all of you who have helped us during the past year, you all know who you are, and we couldn’t possibly list you all, as we would run out of space.We will be organising a party in York soon and we hope you will come.

Those that know us will know that we are not the best salesmen, but we are down to earth designers that love to create.

Dan and Andy x

We realised during the past year, that our clients would benefit from being able to read their scripts directly to the camera. In April we took delivery of a teleprompter, which allows you to do just that. On April 4th the retention team at Norwich union became the first to try out the new system.

Besides a few early teething problems the system worked brilliantly and everyone agreed how easy it was to work with. Jason McCartney a freelance TV presenter on the day, commented how much quicker it was being able to use the autocue. Give us a call if you would like further info on how it could aid you video production.

Eko were approached by Alyson Evans from Red Peg PR,to produce several podcasts for a new exciting website aimed at the recruitment industry.

Plum Jobs is a new national website aimed at those in, and those wanting to join the recruitment industry.

Alyson explains:

The job board market in the UK had become saturated. So when three recruitment business owners had a conversation over dinner and shared their frustrations about finding new recruits to work in the recruitment industry it was clear that to set up their own job board just for the recruitment industry they were going to have to produce a user friendly, eye-catching website that stood out from the competition. Marketing consultant Alyson Evans of Red Peg Marketing and PR understood that websites need to be fresh, inviting and to get the message across to potential recruits what could be stronger than to feature real recruiters who could dispel the myths about recruitment and tell the story like it really is.

“Most graduates or people at a crossroads in life don’t think about recruitment as a career. I was a law graduate with a corporate career under my belt and I, like many other people fell in to recruitment. Fifteen years later I’m still engaged and fascinated about the sector. No two days are the same. People who have good communication skills, enterprise and integrity do well in recruitment. We wanted to share that passion and I thought that short films would be the best way to get the message across in bite-sized chunks.”

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Alyson was impressed by the innovative approach brought to new media by eko-create.

“They were approachable, full of ideas and efficient. I thought I worked hard but these guys brought the films in on a realistic budget, on time well within launch date.”

Check out the results at www.plumjobs.com I’m looking forward to working with the eko guys again, just hope they don’t get too booked up!

eko are set to start work on a music video for Leeds indie band the Shakinouts. if all goes to plan the video will feature shameless star Alice Berry, who plays Lillian in the multi award winning series on channel 4. eko produced the bands first video ” Time you were told” which has just been released as a single. The band are due to appear on the BBC shortly, and will be releasing a new 5 track ep in July.

Lillian is due to start filming series 6 of shameless this month, but aims to film with eko and the band in June. Here’s the bands first video produced by eko in 2007.

Check out Shameless at the Channel 4 site, 

Our friends at Science City York, (part of York city council) asked us to come up with a short humorous film, that shows some of the regions talents within the areas of creative arts, technology and bio science areas. We would like to thank the following for their input,

Revolution Games, Sarahphotogirl, Isotoma, CSL,
Bailey Cooper Photography, Steven Bradshaw Photography,
York Science Park, www.sxc.hu, Sumo Technologies, Creative state

And by the way the female narrator is an online voice simulator,
Check out Science City York at the following www.sciencecityyork.org.uk/